There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.

They need only to look at him, hear his name, and the last of reason goes up in smoke. They sink into a state of befuddlement.

Wilier races had interbred with human race during immemorial.Therefore no need to look for them on anywhere but in ourselves.

Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her.

History makes my mouth water - and that is as much because of the voids in what documentation remains as what is set in stone.

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

El error más grave que han cometido los parias, a lo largo de la historia, ha sido confiar en los hijos de papá.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Wer nicht von dreitausend Jahren sich weiß Rechenschaft zu geben, bleib im Dunkeln unerfahren, mag von Tag zu Tage leben.

Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.

The world is too dangerous to live in not because of the people who do evil but because of the people who sit and let it happen

...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.